CONCERNING  FOREIGN 
MISSIONS 


CONC  ERNING  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 


The  Woman's  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania  conferred  its  degree  upon 
the  first  woman  who  ever  went  to  the  foreign  field  as  a medical  missionary — 
Dr.  Clara  Swain,  of  the  class  of  1869.  Since  that  time  more  than  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  (125)  medical  missionaries  have  been  graduated  by  this 
College.  Special  facilities  exist  at  the  Woman’s  Medical  College  of  Penn- 
sylvania for  the  education  of  missionary  students,  and  many  of  the  best 
known  and  most  successful  of  the  medical  women  now  in  the  foreign  field 
claim  this  College  as  their  Alma  Mater.  It  is  often  said  that  the  name  and 
fame  of  the  College  are  better  appreciated  in  foreign  lands  than  in  the  quiet 
city  of  Philadelphia  where  the  College  originated  and  where  it  unosten- 
tatiously carries  on  its  work  from  year  to  year.  At  this  time  when  a special 
effort  is  being  made  to  strengthen  and  uphold  the  hands  of  the  fine  old 
institution,  the  men  and  women  who  are  particularly  concerned  in  mis- 
sions abroad  should  not  forget  the  important  part  the  College  is  playing 
in  this  phase  of  the  world’s  work,  and  they  should  be  moved  to  do  what- 
ever they  can  to  preserve  and  sustain  an  institution  so  indispensable  to 
the  best  interests  of  missions. 

Information  has  been  received  from  an  authoritative  source  in  reference 
to  the  number  of  medical  women  sent  out  by  all  the  Boards  in  the  United 
States  to  the  foreign  field  during  the  last  twelve  years.  Tabulated  data 
given  below  show  howT  large  is  the  proportion  educated  at  this  College. 

During  the  twelve  years  between  1903  and  1915,  the  several  colleges 
in  the  United  States  granting  the  medical  degree  to  women  have  pre- 
pared women  medical  missionaries  for  the  foreign  field  in  the  numbers 
indicated  below: 

Each  one  of  twenty-seven  colleges  prepared  one. 

(Many  of  these  colleges  were  of  inferior  rank  and  are  not  now  in  existence  or  have 
merged  with  other  institutions.) 

Each  of  the  following  colleges  prepared  two: 

Rush  Medical  College,  University  of  California,  Drake  University, 
Cornell  University,  Trinity  University,  Hahnemann  Medical  College. 

Northwestern  University  prepared  Jour. 

University  of  Michigan  prepared  five. 

Johns  Hopkins  University  Medical  School  prepared  six. 

American  Medical  Missionary  College  (Chicago)  prepared  eight. 

College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  University  of  Illinois,  prepared  ten. 

Institutions  not  specified  prepared  thirteen. 

The  Woman’s  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania 
Prepared  Thirty-One. 


women  physicians,  of  whom  31  were  graduated  from  this  College.  Boards 


OUTLINE  MAP  SHOWING  LOCATIONS  BY  COUNTRIES  OF  GRADUATES  OF 
THE  WOMAN’S  MEDICAL  COLLEGE  OF  PENNSYLVANIA 

who  have  served  (or  are  serving)  as  medical  missionaries  in  foreign  fields  or  who,  as  natives,  have  practiced  among  their  own  people. 

FORTY-TWO  GRADUATES  IN  CHINA ; FORTY-ONE  IN  INDIA. 


